The Night of the Hunter (Big Screen Classics)

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork.

A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children.

Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.

#25 on the BFI Sight and Sound 250 Greatest Films of All Time.

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• This Saturday, 28th June, 12:45 pm, NY Dog Film Festival ($5 Family Films) in Amherst
• Next Wednesday, 2nd July, 07:00 pm, Come on Back! The Movie w/ Director and Puppeteers in person! in Amherst
• Next Thursday, 3rd July, 07:00 pm, John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Bellwether) in Amherst

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